World Wide Waste.it's just Astounding

World Wide Waste…it’s just Astounding

 

An average person throws away 74kg of organic

waste each year, which is the same as 1,077 banana

skins.

 

Every day 80 million food and drinks cans end up in

landfill - that's one and a half cans per person. In a

year, each person could fill a bath with the contents

of these cans!

 

We use over six billion glass bottles and jars each

year. It would take you over three and a half

thousand years to sing 'Six Billion Green Bottles'!

In the 1950s the world made less than 5 million

tonnes of plastic products. This has increased to

about 80 million tonnes today. We produce and use

20 times more plastic today than we did 50 years

ago!

 

Recycling waste materials supports about six times

as many waste-related jobs as there would be if the

same materials were treated as trash.

 

The oil equivalent of 35 Exxon Valdez tankers is

dumped into our nation’s rivers, lakes, and streams

every year! And used motor oil is far more deadly

than crude oil ...

 

The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will

keep a light bulb burning for 4 hours.